Pressed Silence

This series speaks through gesture when words can no longer carry meaning. The faces recede, but the hands remain, holding, shielding, and cradling what endures. Through restrained tones of white, red, ochre, and deep green, the figures embody the quiet strength of survival. They do not cry out; instead, they rest in stillness, a stillness heavy with memory and time.

The imagery captures the tension between exposure and protection, where the act of covering becomes both defense and devotion. The figures appear worn, their forms shaped by years of endurance, carrying the weight of journeys that have stretched across silence and loss. Within their gestures lies the memory of all that has been held, the tenderness of those who have learned to persist without noise.

At its essence, Pressed Silence is a meditation on endurance at the edge of exhaustion. It reveals the body as both vessel and archive, a keeper of stories too fragile for speech. These works honor the aged and timeworn, those who have carried the unspoken through a lifetime, their hands still holding what the world could not.